The Pocatello Carnegie Library is a historic building in

Pocatello, Idaho Pocatello () is the county seat of and the largest city in Bannock County, Idaho, Bannock County, with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring Power County, Idaho, Power County, containing the city's airport. It is t ...

. It was built as a Carnegie library in 1907, and designed in the Palladian architectural style. With According to Arthur Hart, the director of the

Idaho State Historical Museum The Idaho State Historical Society (ISHS) is a historical society located in the U.S. state of Idaho that preserves and promotes the state's cultural heritage. The society was founded as the Historical Society of Idaho Pioneers in 1881, nine yea ...

, "Pilasters are topped with stone

triglyph Triglyph is an architectural term for the vertically channeled tablets of the Doric frieze in classical architecture, so called because of the angular channels in them. The rectangular recessed spaces between the triglyphs on a Doric frieze are ...

s in the narrow frieze. On the entry facade the words 'Public Library' in appropriate Roman letters identify the buildings original function." The building has been listed on the

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since July 2, 1973.

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Carnegie libraries in Idaho Library buildings completed in 1907 National Register of Historic Places in Bannock County, Idaho Palladian Revival architecture in the United States 1907 establishments in Idaho {{BannockCountyID-NRHP-stub